School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Baile an Teampaill, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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- A Collection of Riddles
Q There is a little house and it wouldnt hold a a mouse and it has as many windows as a Lord Mayor's house.
A A thimble
Q What walks up and down the stairs with its head down?
A A nail in your boot.
Q What sleeps in the corner with its finger in its eye?
A The brook.
Q Chip, Chip, Cherry, all the men in Derry wouldn climb Chip Chip Cherry.
A The smoke.
Q What has several eyes and cant see.
A The brook.
Q A big bellied father a small bellied mother and three children just like each other.
A A pot.
These riddles were told to me by my brother
Sam Bennett,
Ballintemple,
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.
Written by Eliza Bennett,
Ballintemple, N.S.,
- Collector
- Eliza Bennett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Teampaill, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Sam Bennett
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Teampaill, Co. an Chabháin
